About “...Ready for It?”

The first promotional single from Taylor Swift’s sixth album, reputation, debuted in an ad shown during a college football game between Florida State and Alabama. After its TV premiere, the song was also featured in an ABC ad.

As opposed to Swift’s first reputation single “Look What You Made Me Do,” this song sounds more like the songs from her 1989 album. The song contains dark, luscious production and sexually suggestive lyrics that may remind some fans of “I Know Places.”

When was this song written?

Based on the caption of one of the polaroids featured in a Target-exclusive magazine, Taylor was working on this song in late December 2016.

Has the song been performed live on TV?

Yes, Taylor Swift performed the song on November 12, 2017’s episode of Saturday Night Live! The performance can be seen below:

Is there a music video?

Yes there is! Watch the video here and check out an analysis by Genius users here.

Does the track have any relationship to any songs from her repertoire?

Are there any translations of this song?

What have the artists said about the song?

It kind of introduces a metaphor you may hear more of throughout the rest album, which is like this kind of Crime and Punishment metaphor, where it talks about robbers, and thieves, and heists, and all that. And I found that to be a really interesting metaphor, but twisted in different ways throughout the album. The way that’s presented in “…Ready For It?” is basically, finding your partner in crime, and it’s like ‘Oh my god we’re the same, we’re the same, oh my god! Let’s rob banks together, this is great!’